Lisa Denig is Special Counsel for ADR Initiatives for the NYS Office of Court Administration and serves as the coordinator of Chief Judge Janet DiFiore’s new presumptive ADR initiative.

She once managed to be a chief of staff to a county executive running for re-election, a law student, a single mom of two girls and an editor of Pace’s Law Review AT THE SAME TIME! I asked how she managed such challenging times and my interview contains her answer.

As a life-long Democrat, Lisa chose to work with a Republican state senator to help people in her community. It took a lot of courage from both sides, but they were able to get “enormous amounts of things done.” She emphasizes, “we all need to work together to move forward.”